Doodlebug (M.M.)

The Doodlebug is formally known as the Ant Lion, and the Ant Lion is formally known as Myreleontidae.

Myrmex means ant and Leon means lion in greek.

The Doodlebug is in the Neuroptera order, whitch means "net wings". Every Insect in the Neuroptera has four wings.

The Ant Lion is named as such because of how it looks as larva [baby].

• big head
• spiny jaws
• small legs
• and soft, fragile body[coverd in bristles]
  -as seen in picture above-
  

The Ant Lion is truely the "lion" of the ants. Its a .
During the larvae stage they sometimes are hidden under little pieces of wood and wait to come out and attack any insect that passes buy. Or if they are in sandy areas they make a cone like trap in the sand for other bugs to slip into. This is how the Ant Lion got it's nickname "Doddlebug"

-because of the cone like pattern in the sand they make, as seen to the right-